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Blogs market celebrities or celebrities market blogs?

Not only products need marketings, people need them too! With the increasing trend of writing blogs, many people start to spend ton of time on blogs; and, a huge portion of them closely follow celebrities! Now, the question is, in reality, do blogs promote celebrities or celebrities promote blogs?

It is not hard to understand that celebrities need to make their lives a little bit public to promote themselves. Before blogs have ever existed, the media always “help” promoting celebrities, sometimes positive and sometimes negative. And, the media will always make sure those superstars appear “hotter”! This will not only market the media themselves but also helps those celebrities to gain popularity! However, sometimes, those superstars do not really appreciate the media’s efforts. To change this phenomenon, blogs and other online tools start to become an indispensible part for some of those celebrities to gain popularity, and always in the positive way.

From celebrities’ massive usage of personal blogs including personal pictures and interactive conversations, this social media gain so much more attention from other people. People get on blogs and start to write about themselves. In turn, blogs get what they want which is popularity and people get what they want which is other people’s attention-it is a win-win situation.

Blogs and celebrities is just one of the examples where two of them depend on and benefit from each other.  This kind of marketing strategy is very simple and useful out there in the market! And, to market successfully, we should consider other people’s benefit while get yours.

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Marketing in the Air port!

Last weekend, I went to a company seminar in Nashville, TN. It was very crazy that I took 4 flights together in 3days, going through 4 different air ports. Since I spent a lot time in those air ports, I noticed many interesting marketing strategies and was amazed how much thought they have been putting together to market varies products through the four Ps concepts.

Product: Due to many people take flights for business reasons, the air port often offer lots business related reading magazines and books, brand name clothes like Hugo Boss, expensive makeup and, surprisingly, Blackberry retail stores. Also, two out of the four also offer shoe cleaning services.

Price: It wasn’t hard to notice the product prices in the air ports are usually higher due to their specific target markets; they know people have to purchase foods and water and some will buy those expensive products to fulfill their time in the air ports.

Place: One interesting fact I noticed was that the air port in Nashville does not offer much staff but only some music related gifts because the city is known the music city. I guess the reason might be that not much people go there for business trips. To effectively located their products and wisely use the limited space in the air port; they always put shops on the way to the waiting areas but not much staff for those people who just get off the air planes.

Promotion: Usually, the air ports put those products to add values to travelers’ experience and elevate the position of the consumers by providing appropriate products.

Overall, I had a very good week in the States, and it was even cooler to see how businesses apply marketing strategies in the real world.

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